The Oracle of Time is a shrine-like interactive installation where visitors dial a year on a vintage rotary telephone to consult an oracle that can oversee all time. In response, the system generates spoken reflections that move between speculative futures, remembered pasts, and narratives connected to a specific place. Each interaction becomes a small act of time travel offering poetic interpretations of what may be unfolding in distant futures and how landscapes and communities might transform over time. The work invites audiences to consider time as layered, porous, and entangled with both human and more-than-human worlds.
Title of work: Oracle of Time
Artists: Laura Jade & Leslie Marsh
Materials: 80s rotary telephone, Raspberry Pi, custom software, AI LLM, collected plants from Castlemaine and the artist’s garden
Exhibitions:
2026 Castlemaine State Festival
Situated in the “future node” within the All At Once exhibition by @sciartysociety for the @castlemainefestival the interactive oracle invites us to explore our relationship to time and technology as something deeply personal, fluid, interconnected….unfolding “all at once.”
